Vehicle 79120

Derby Lightweight

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Yellow Diamond
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30235
Diagram: 633

Allocations

79120 was involved in the following incident:

21st May 1965 - Lancaster Castle station

Collision involving Derby Lightweight / steam

A Derby Lightweight working the 7.22am Lancaster - Barrow service collided with the 7.32am Morecambe - Lancaster local in Lancaster Castle station. The cab of the DMBS was destroyed, believed to be M79120 which would be withdrawn in October. In the image a DMBS has been lifted off it's bogies and sits on a wagon, and it is thought this was as a result of the Lancaster crash. There's a fair bit of debris at *this end* of the bogies but no visible damage to this end of the vehicle, the tarpaulin at the cab end suggests damage there so the vehicle may have been turned when being put on the wagon. The crane is from Lostock Hall MPD, and the photo was due to appear in Trans-Pennine Publishing Ltd's book "British Railway's Breakdown Cranes" by Peter Tatlow, Alan Earnshaw and David Carter. A photo after the collision appeared on page 468 of the August 1965 Railway Magazine, the DMBS with crushed cab having window bars on the passenger doors, which the vehicle in the image here does not.

Disposal

Scrapped by BR, Derby C&W Works

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

Images:

21st May 1965

An accident damaged M79120 being recovered in the sidings south of Lancaster Castle station (looking south) after an accident at Lancaster on 21/05/65. The 7.22am Lancaster-Barrow collided with the 7.32 Morecambe-Lancaster local. The crane is from Lostock Hall MPD, and the photo can also be found in Trans-Pennine Publishing Ltd's book "British Railway's Breakdown Cranes". Bill Warden.